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Robert Bartlett, excerpt from Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
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The Normans: In this major series, Professor Robert Bartlett examines the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of the Normans, and shows how they transformed the history of Europe.
Muhammad al-Idrisi (1099—1165/6) was a Moroccan Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II of Sicily.
Book of Roger: The Nuzhat al-mushtāq fi’khtirāq al-āfāq (lit. “the book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands” in Arabic), most often known as the Tabula Rogeriana (lit. “The Book of Roger” in Latin), is a description of the world and world map created by the Arab geographer, Muhammad al-Idrisi, in 1154.
The Normans: In this major series, Professor Robert Bartlett examines the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of the Normans, and shows how they transformed the history of Europe.
Battle of Baginbun (Battle of Dundonnell) - May 1170, County Wexford - Norman victory over a combined Irish-Norse force.
Alice of Abervenny
Of the Irish there were taken
Quite as many as seventy.
But the noble knights
Had them beheaded.
To a wench they gave
An axe of tempered steel,
And she beheaded them all
And threw their bodies over the cliff,
Because she had that day
Lost her lover in the combat.
Alice of Abergavenny was her name
Who served the Irish thus.
